Use local instead of lan for default

matta · February 6, 2023, 9:03pm

Howdy y’all,

Is there any particular reason why GL.iNet devices use the lan “connection-specific DNS suffix” instead of the more common local, or is my head on backwards? It seems that more servers and services prefer local to lan. One instance is this caused issues with my TrueNAS core server via SMB, since (by default), it’s set to assign itself the suffix of local.

Is there any strong reason it should stay this way, or other reasons why the default should be changed-over? More curious than anything.

Edit: To clarify, I’m well-aware it can be changed in the LuCI GUI, however I am referring to the out-of-box defaults.

Cheers,
Matt

hansome · February 7, 2023, 2:56am

How to do that, could you kindly share?

matta · February 7, 2023, 5:26am

Yes, certainly

hansome · February 7, 2023, 8:59am

It turns out to be vanilla OpenWRT default config. I think it’s preferred as OpenWrt is a network device rather than a host. And this actually sets dhcp option 15, but I failed to find a use case to change it.

glinoob · February 20, 2023, 6:57pm

I’m curious if using .local might interfere with the convention that Avahi uses .local.

I’m using both .lan and .local at the moment

matta · March 25, 2023, 6:27pm

Fair enough, thank you for the confirmation!